Wire-stretcher.



W. R. GREEN.

WIRE STRETCHER.

APPLICATION man SEPT. 18. 1911.

1,171,784. 1 9 Patented Feb. 15,1916.

l'i III-II J llllllllllllllllTilllIhHllllilIIIHHIIIIIIIIIlllfllllllllllllllllilill awuzwbcm NRO G'rc e w wrLnrAM norqnnnn, 01f; roLso vr, nnwilyrnxiool T0 allachomit in ay concern i i Be it known that I, WILLIAM Roy GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Folsom, in the county of Union and. State of New Mexico, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in wireeS tretchers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will-enable others skilled in the art to which it 'appertainsto make and use the This. invention 7 and splicers, being directed particularly to a readily portable type of the same adapted in taut condition Without aid from the op-.

when in operation Cto be either anchored to a post or other convenlent ob ect or manually supported bythe" operator.

One object of the invention is:the producerator while the wire is being anchored and which is constructed to readily permitthe splicing operation whendesired. V

Another ob ect is to produce a stretcher and splicer which, as. a result of its fsimpli- 'fied construction includlng ,a minimum of parts is little liable to require repair, is adapted, should occasion present itself, to be quickly and easily taken apart and as readily reassembled.

With these and other objects in View the invention-will now be described in thefollowing specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a broken plan, partly in section, of my improved stretcher and splicer. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the device shown without the operating drums or handle, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating the means of connecting one of the drums to its shaft.

Referring now to the drawings, wherein is shown the details of the preferred form of my invention and wherein similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, 1 and 2 denote side bars of the frame formed of appropriate material and proportions and spaced by end braces 3 and l, the parts of the frame as a whole being rigidly .and removably con .npplieatihn fi1edSeptember18,1911. .Seria1No.650,008, i

relates. to wire. stretchers flanges.

sions of the end braces 3 and 1..

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Said end braces project above the. horizontalfplane of the sidebars 1 and 21in the-form of U-shaped extensions 7, as shown in Fig. 3.

naled in side bars 1 and 2',by a wedgeshaped key 11, as shown in Fig. 4:. 'Said operating'handle 12,- to provide for positive sa teed of was ma. Patented Fb."15 191e.

nected bymeans of threaded bolts and 6. 4

- '8 denotes a spool-likeigearing provided .on'its flanges with gear teeth-9 and-keyed to its sh'aftlO which'is 'remova'bly jour :sliaft projects beyond side bar 2 0f the E 1 frame and is provided witlrasquaredend, over which fits :a squared aperture in an action of the spool Sin operating therdevice.

13 denotes a spool-like gearing formed jwitl :gear-toothed'flanges'l l sim lar 1n form anddimensions to spool 8 and' ournaled bars 1 and 2, spools Sand .13 being so rela *tively positioned as to-permit', in the revolu.

on" shaft 15, the latter bearing lin the side tion of said spools, meshing -=of itl1eir toothed 16 and 17 {denote drums removably supand 2 by shafts 18 and 19 respectively jour= ported for revolution between "sidebars 1 naledfin said1bars, the drumsibeingpr vided on their flanges with gear teeth 20 and 21 and positioned to cause meshing engagement of said teeth with the gear teeth on flanges of spools 8 and 13 respectivelywhen the apparatus is being operated.

22"and 23 denote anchor pins fixedly secured in drums 16 and 17 and extending transversely thereof from flange to flange-.1

of said drums and designed toanchor the.

innerends of grip chains 24 and 25 respectively passing through thexU-shztped exten- 12 is formed into a staple puller 28 for ready use in extracting the, staples employed to' attach,in the instance of a fence wire beingjhandled, said wire to the posts when desired to re-position the staples.

, In operation, assuming that it is desired to remove the slack in a fence Wire, one of the grip chains, as 2a, is securely fastened to one of the fence posts andthe'other chain attached to the wire to be stretched when, as obvious, on turning handle 12 chain 25 will Wrap on 'driuml7 and draw the wire toward the stretcher. lVhen the wire has been drawn sufficiently 'taut' thelocking- :each other, thatthe ends of the sections will overlap sufliciently to form: the splice. lVhen the ends-o1 the sections have been drawn to overlapped position, the lockingpawl iscperated to'hold. them-in such relav,tion, handle 12 disengaged fromishaft 10 andthe ends of the wire sections assembled and passed through aperture 27 in said handle which is then revolved, resulting in turning the said ends one upon the" other and forming anefitective twist splice, the handle being then slipped from the twisted ends,

forming the splice and returned to -opera tive connection with the. stretcher.

From. the foregoing it will be seen that I V "Witnessesz have provideda simple, effective stretcher and splicer adapted to maintain a stretched wire in taut condition Without aid from theoperator while the latter has the use of both 'hands to anchor or splice the Wire, the device; being also adapted for ready disen-i gagement of theseveral parts and as ready assembling shonldkoccasioii arise for repair.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas neivand desire to secure by Lee ters Patent, 1s i 1 A wire stretcher including a frame, comprising-side bars. removable'braces spacing the sidebars and projected. thereabove to forml'cham' guides, shafts removably ournaled in the frame, a plurality of'geared drums, ahandle mounted on one of the shafts for revolving the drums, removable tyingv bolts detachably connecting theendsi of the side bars and theqbraces and adapted 1 i tomaintain the frame and'driums in -assem-;

bledoperative position and chains connect ed tov said anchor pins andpassing through the respective, guides, the guides beingpf m e such dimensions that the :-chains are tained; in approximate aline'ment. In testimony whereof I afiix my sigmature in'presence of two itnesses.

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